Inferiority is always with us, and merciless scorn of it is the keynote of the military temper.

Pacifists ought to enter more deeply into the aesthetical and ethical point of view of their opponents. ... So long as antimilitarists propose no substitute fo…

I will now confess my own utopia. I devoutly believe in the reign of peace and in the gradual advent of some sort of socialistic equilibrium. The fatalistic vi…

Without risks or prizes for the darer, history would be insipid indeed; and there is a type of military character which every one feels that the race should ne…

The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling o…

Easy, Mr. Pendleton. Easy. Good to have your dander up, but it's discipline that wins the day.

[He] always wondered at that smile even as it triumphed over his own anger or envy. Where could such a power over others come from?